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- Charges dropped against Pinochet widow, children
- SANTIAGO AFP — A Chilean appeals court on Friday dropped embezzlement charges against the widow of the country's late dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, and most of their children. Fifth Appeals Court chief justice Juan Eduardo Fuentes said the panel dropped the charges lodged on October 4 against the widow,...
- Research articles 2007-10-26
- Editorial | The Death of Pinochet
- Augusto Pinochet is dead. But is his passing really, as many are saying and writing, "the end of an era"? It ought to be. Pinochet, 91, died Sunday in Chile, the country he had ruled from 1973 to 1990. He came to power in a coup d'etat that overthrew the...
- Research articles 2006-12-13
- Chile's ex-dictator Pinochet gets military funeral
- SANTIAGO AFP — Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose brutal Cold War military regime presided over mass torture and murder, received a full military funeral after the government denied him state honors. Some 7,000 family, friends and supporters attended the funeral at the Santiago Military School, where they hissed at the...
- Research articles 2006-12-12
- Chile's Pinochet a symbol of military repression
- SANTIAGO AFP — Augusto Pinochet, who died one week after suffering a heart attack, came to symbolize Latin American military repression and was linked to thousands of tortures, abductions and deaths. He ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973-1990. Pinochet, 91, died without ever standing trial on any charge,...
- Research articles 2006-12-10
- US tied to Pinochet, from ascent to demise
- WASHINGTON AFP — Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who died at a Santiago hospital, was a long-time protege of the United States who backed him in 1973 when he overthrew the Socialist government of Salvador Allende. Later, he fell out of favor as human rights abuses under his watch got...
- Research articles 2006-12-10
- Pinochet gets military funeral, as protesters gear up
- SANTIAGO AFP — Untried for the crimes of his dictatorship, Augusto Pinochet got full military honors, as followers streamed past his open casket and his victims' relatives marched to keep his infamy alive. President Michelle Bachelet, whose mother, father and herself were tortured under the 1973-1990 regime, denied the late...
- Research articles 2006-12-10
- Pinochet's health progressing nicely, says doctor
- SANTIAGO AFP — Chilean former dictator Augusto Pinochet, hospitalized since Sunday after a heart attack, is "continuing to progress well," according to the military hospital in Santiago where he is being treated. Doctor Juan Vergara, head of the hospital's medical team, said Wednesday that the 91-year-old Pinochet could leave the...
- Research articles 2006-12-06
- Pinochet out of the woods and talking after heart attack
- SANTIAGO AFP — Ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet is out of danger after a weekend heart attack, his doctors said, as his daughter announced her father would not apologize for human rights abuses blamed on his regime. "At this time we can say that the critical stage has passed," the doctor leading...
- Research articles 2006-12-05
- Pinochet improves as Bachelet struggles over state funeral
- SANTIAGO AFP — Ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet's precarious health improved as President Michelle Bachelet struggled with the idea of a state funeral for the man whose regime tortured her and her family. "The risk of dying has diminished, but it still persists," doctor Juan Ignacio Vergara told reporters Monday afternoon. Vergara...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- Ex-dictator Pinochet in 'hands of God' after heart attack
- SANTIAGO AFP — Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who has never faced trial for abuses committed by his military regime, was fighting for his life after surgery for a heart attack. A Roman Catholic priest gave Pinochet his last rites, traditionally reserved for the gravely ill near death, while the...
- Research articles 2006-12-03
- Pinochet again under house arrest
- SANTIAGO AFP — Two days after his 91st birthday, former dictator Augusto Pinochet was ordered under house arrest by a judge investigating the disappearance of two people during his 17-year rule, court officials said. Accused of fraud and human rights abuses during his 1973-1990 regime, Pinochet was already placed under...
- Research articles 2006-11-27
- Chile's Pinochet under house arrest
- SANTIAGO AFP — Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was formally placed under house arrest, raising speculation that he may for the first time face trial for any of the 3,000 murders and tortures committed during his 1973-1990 regime. Pinochet was charged with alleged crimes at Villa Grimaldi, a secret jail...
- Research articles 2006-10-30
- Pinochet family challenges fraud charges
- SANTIAGO AFP — The family of Augusto Pinochet filed a court challenge against fraud charges related to secret bank accounts the former Chilean dictator is accused of keeping. The lawyer for Pinochet's eldest daughter also urged her to return from the United States, where she has been detained after...
- Research articles 2006-01-27
- Pinochet's wife, children escape house arrest on fraud charges
- SANTIAGO AFP — An appeals court lifted a house arrest order against the wife and four children of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who are charged with fraud over secret foreign bank accounts. Lucia Hiriart and four of her children, along with three other people, were ordered under house...
- Research articles 2006-01-24
- Pinochet loses immunity in new charges, remains under arrest
- SANTIAGO AFP — A Chilean court stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity to face new charges in a fraud case and postponed until after the New Year a ruling on his house arrest. Pinochet, 90, has been under house arrest since November 23 under charges in connection...
- Research articles 2005-12-30
- Chilean court rejects second Pinochet appeal for release
- SANTIAGO AFP — Chile's Supreme Court rejected a second appeal for release by ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, under house arrest since November 23 after being charged in connection with the deaths of political opponents in 1975. Judges voted three to two against Pinochet's habeas corpus appeal to have his house...
- Research articles 2005-12-26
- Voters in Chile could pick their first woman president
- SANTIAGO AFP — Chileans have begun voting in a presidential election that could make an agnostic socialist single mother the first woman president of this fervently Roman Catholic country. Opinion polls tipped Michelle Bachelet, a pediatrician by training and former health minister and defense minister, as most likely successor...
- Research articles 2005-12-10
- Pinochet faces new charges in Operation Colombo
- SANTIAGO AFP — Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet faces three new charges in connection with the 1975 killing of dissidents during his regime, but he was cleared in four other deaths in the same case. Pinochet has been under house arrest since November 23 after he was charged in...
- Research articles 2005-12-06
- Pinochet spends 90th birthday under house arrest
- SANTIAGO AFP — Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet spent his 90th birthday under house arrest, after being charged over the killings of political opponents and secret bank accounts. The charges made by investigating judges on Wednesday and Thursday have sparked a new nationwide debate on the Pinochet junta that...
- Research articles 2005-11-25
- Pinochet unwell under house arrest
- SANTIAGO AFP — Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet appeared frail and wanting to die as he spent his 90th birthday under house arrest over criminal charges, according to the ex-strongman's allies. Pinochet had planned to celebrate his birthday in style with more than 60 relatives and friends Friday, but...
- Research articles 2005-11-26
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